Current Position
Touch Hardware Engineer, Apple Inc.

Experience
• Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University (Aug 2017 – Present).
• Research Assistant, IISc, (Aug 2016 – Aug 2017)
• PhD Student, IISc, (Aug 2011 – Aug 2016)
• Executive Engineer, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. India, (Jul 2010- Jul 2011).

Theses Title (Year)
Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers: from Design to Applications (2016).

Education
• M.B.A, Total Quality Management, Sikkim Manipal
• M.Tech. Plastic Engineering, Central Institute of Plastic Engineering and Science, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa.
• B.Tech. Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal.

Experience
• Assistant Professor, Rural Engineering College, Hulkoti, Gadag, June 2011 – July 2012.
• Promoter and Head, AIPS, Bijapur, Feb 2010 – June 2011.

Publications
• P. K. S. Mural, Giridhar Madras, Suryasarathi Bose, “PTC effects in PE/PEO blends in presence of MWNT’s”, AWPP, Goa, December 08-11, 2013, Poster presentaton.

• P. K. S. Mural, Giridhar Madras, Suryasarathi Bose, “Positive temperature coefficient in PE/PEO blends: effect of MWNTs”, IWAM, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, February 23-25, 2014, Poster presentaton.

• P. K. S. Mural, Giridhar Madras, Suryasarathi Bose, “PTC, NTC effects in PE/PEO blends: effect of MWNTs”, ICONSAT, Chandigarh, 3-5 March 2014, Poster presentaton.

Current Position
Fulbright Nehru Postdoctorol Fellow, University of California, San Diego.

Experience
Project Associate, Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, (Feb 2011 – Jul 2011).

Publications
• Pooyath Lekshmy Venugopalan, Ranajit Sai, Yashoda Chandorkar, Bikramjit Basu, Srinivasrao Shivashankar, Ambarish Ghosh, “ Conformal cytocompatible ferrite coatings facilitate the realization of nanovoyager in human blood” , Nanoletters, 14(4), 1968-1975, 2014.

• Pooyath Lekshmy Venugopalan, Gaurav Gupta, Arijit Ghosh, Haobijam Johnson Singh, Greshma Nair and Ambarish Ghosh, “Study of the formation of Nano Networks in colloidal particles”, International Journal of Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials,62, 499 – 501, 2013.

• Arijit Ghosh, Debadrita Paria, Haobijam Johnson Singh, Pooyath Lekshmy Venugopalan and Ambarish Ghosh, “Dynamical configurations and Bistability of a helical nanostructures under an external torque”, Physical Review E, 86, 031401, 2012.

Current Position
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECED), National Institute of Technology Calicut (NITC), Kerala

Education
• B-Tech, Applied Electronics & Instrumentation, (2005), University of Calicut, Kerala, India.
• M.Sc(Engg), (2009), Dept. of Instrumentation & Applied Physics (IAP), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

Experience
• Project Assistant, Centre for Sponsored Schemes and Projects, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, (Aug 2008 -June 2009).
• Project Associate, Society for Innovation and Development, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, (Jul 2009 – Oct 2009).
• Scientist B, Naval Science and Technology Lab, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Bangalore, (Oct 2009 – July 2010).

Theses Title (Year)
Cold Atmospheric Plasma system – Simulation, Fabrication, Diagnosis and Thinfilm deposition (2017).

Research Area
Plasmonics and Metamaterials

Publications
• Atmospheric pressure plasma chemical vapor deposition reactor for 100 mm wafers, optimized for minimum contamination at low gas flow rates, Venu Anand, Aswathi R. Nair, S. A. Shivashankar, and G. Mohan Rao, Applied Physics Letters 107, 094103 (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4929781.

• On the purity of Atmospheric glow discharge plasma, Venu Anand and G.Mohan Rao IEEETrans.Plasma,37,1811(2009). http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=5175412. 

• Surface modification of PDMS using atmospheric glow discharge polymerization of tetrafluoroethane for immobilization of biomolecules, V Anand, S Ghosh, M Ghosh, GM Rao, R Railkar, RR Dighe, Applied Surface Science, 257, 20, 8378-8384, (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2011.04.040.

• On the quality of hydrogenated amorphous silicon deposited by sputtering, Habibuddin Shaik, Venu Anand, Mohan Rao G, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 26, 367–373, (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2014.05.021.

• Effect of iodine concentration on the photovoltaic properties of dye sensitized solar cells for various I2/LiI ratios, Ambily Mathew, Venu Anand, G Mohan Rao, N Munichandraiah,ElectrochimicaActa,87,92–96,(2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2012.08.104.

• Electrochemical co-deposition of bimetallic Pt–Ru nanoclusters dispersed on poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene) and electrocatalytic behavior for methanol oxidation, S Patra, S Dash, V Anand, CS Nimisha, GM Rao, N Munichandraiah, Materials Science and Engineering: B, 176, 10, 785-791, (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2011.03.012.

Current Position
Post Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem).

Experience
Project Assistant, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, June 2009 – Nov 2009.

Theses Title (Year)
Molecular Transport in Polyelectrolyte Multilayers (2017).

Research Area
Gas-sensing, bio-sensing

Publications
• Electrochromism and redox switching of cobalt hexacyanoferrate-polyaniline hybrid films in a hydrophobic ionic liquid , Suman Pahal, M. Deepa, S. Bhandari, K. N. Sood, and A. K. Srivastava, Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells, Vol.94(6) 1064-75 (2010).

• A Dual Electrochrome of Poly-(3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene) doped by N, N’-Bis (3-sulfonatopropyl) – 4 – 4 ’-bipyridinium – Redox Chemistry and Electrochromism in Flexible devices, Shweta Bhandari, Melepurath Deepa, Suman Pahal, Amish G. Joshi, Avanish Kumar Srivastava and Rama Kant. ChemSusChem, Wiley Inter Science, 3, 97-105 (2010).A

Current Position
IITD, Senior Project Scientist.

Education
• B.Sc. Madan Mohan Malviya P.G. Collage, Bhatpar Rani.
• M.Sc. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University , Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur.

Experience
Postdoc at EPFL, Lausanne

Theses Title (Year)
Investigation of Nonlinearities in Graphene-based NEMS (2017).

Current Position
• Assistant Professor at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.

Experience
• Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering. Bengaluru, Sep 2015 to July 2017.
• Visiting Faculty, Department of Mechanical Engineering, GATE Forum, Bengaluru, Sep 2015 to Present.
• Visiting Faculty, Department of Mechanical Engineering, GATE ETC, Bengaluru, June 2015 to Present.
• Senior Research Associate, Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, IISc, Bengaluru, Mar 2015 to Sep 2015.
• Research Associate, CranesSci MEMS Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc, Bengaluru, Mar 2006 to Aug 2009.
• Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, East Point College of Engineering, Bengaluru, Jun 2004 – Mar 2006.

Theses Title (Year)
Experimental Studies on Extremely Small Scale Vibrations of Micro-Scale Mechanical and Biological Structures. (2017)

Research Area
MEMS/NEMS, Materials for MEMS/NEMS

Publications
• Venkatesh K P, and Rudra Pratap. “Capturing Higher Modes of Vibration of Micromachined Resonators.” Journal of Physics,: Conference Series Vol. 181, 2009.

• K. A. Lohar, Venkatesh K P, and Rudra Pratap, “Effect of Process Induced Variations on Performance Characteristics of a Dual Mass Vibratory MEMS Gyroscope”, International Journal of Micro and Nano Systems, Vol. 1(1), pp. 57-63, 2009.

• Venkatesh K P, Nishad Patil, Ashok Kumar Pandey, and Rudra Pratap, “Design and Characterization of an in-plane MEMS Yaw Rate Sensor”, Sadhana, Vol. 34, part 4, pp 633-642, 2009.

• Ashok Kumar Pandey, Venkatesh K P, and Rudra Pratap, “Effect of Metal Coating and Residual Stress on the Resonant Frequency of MEMS Resonators”, Sadhana,, Vol. 34, Part 4, pp. 651-661, 2009.

• Shishir Kumar, Venkatesh K P, Sam Baskar, and Madhavi.S.P, “System Integration Design In MEMS-Case Study of A Micromachined Load Cell Sensor” , Sadhana, Vol. 34, part 4, pp 663-675, 2009.

Patents
Venkatesh K P, Mohan Jayaram, Upendra Nongthomba and Rudra Pratap, “Method and system for indicating muscular disorders”, International Patent, PCT/IB2016/056424.